Here’s what classes everyone is playing in Critical Role Campaign 4

Ever since Critical Role announced campaign 4, we’ve obsessed over one question: what’s everyone playing? The team initially released cryptic, emoji-ridden hints that didn’t give us much to work with (which certainly didn’t stop the speculation), followed by character art for each player which fueled even more wild speculation.

But now that the first episode has aired, we have concrete details on what everyone is playing. Everyone has started at level 3, playing the 2024 D&D rules. We know the core classes for all players — probably — but not yet any subclasses. I’m not going to have any story spoilers in this post, but I talk about stats and speculate on subclasses. Let’s look at our heroes!

• Liam O’Brien as Halandil (Hal) Fang, an orc bard. Hal is high charisma (18), high wisdom (16), high intellect (16), and strikes me as College of Lore or College of Eloquence rather than a bard with a more martial focus. But the initial episode didn’t exactly offer opportunities for seeing how characters would play in combat, and I’m still not sure where Hal falls amongst the bard colleges.
• Luis Carazo as Azune Nayar, a paladin/sorcerer, whom Luis described as “human in appearance,” which could mean human or could mean something that looks human. Azune seems well on the martial side of things, wearing heavy armor and carrying a two-handed weapon, but his stats say he could be just as good at casting spells as he is at smiting enemies with a hammer: Azune has 18 strength and 18 charisma.
• Aabria Iyengar as Thaisha Lloy, an orc druid. I had initially speculated Thaisha might be circle of the wildfire, because of the flame-like details in her art, but nothing suggests one circle or the other for Thaisha just yet. Aabria must have made some good rolls at character creation, because Taisha is starting with 20 wisdom.
• Alexander Ward as Occtis Tachonis, a human Wizard. His familiar is Pin, which he describes as “a fox made of different foxes.” I had initially pinned Occtis as an Artificer with the reanimated subclass because of Pin, but we’re sticking with the classic Wizard (and the Necromancy subclass is right there). With 19 intellect and 10 wisdom, Occtis would probably put tomato in a fruit salad.
• Travis Willingham as Teor Pridesire, a nama (lionfolk) paladin. There are few clues in Teor’s art or in-game actions as to what kind of subclass he’ll have, and his stats are good enough to do well in combat or magic. His charisma (17), however, is higher than his strength (15) so he may lean on the Paladin’s spellcasting.
• Sam Riegel as Wicander Halovar, a human Cleric… supposedly. In a world without gods, Clerics are in an odd space, and beyond the narrative confusion, Wicander has 10 wisdom. You can play a Cleric with 10 wisdom, but you are making life hard on yourself if you do. His best stat is charisma (18), and we may be seeing a bait-and-switch here in which Wicander is really a sorcerer or warlock. (With 10 wisdom, he might not even realize it.)
• Whitney Moore as Tyranny, a demon warlock. I’d labeled Tyranny a tiefling from the art, but she is a straight-up demon. She’s under Wicander’s tutelage as an aspirant, which also suggests Wicander may be other than what he claims. Whitney is another one who clearly rolled high on character creation, with 20 charisma and 18 constitution.
• Laura Bailey as Thimble, a pixie Rogue who is just four inches tall. the gates to faerie have closed, and she is trapped in the world of mortals, aging like the rest. She didn’t have much screentime in the first episode (but had an outsized emotional impact for it), and again we know little except that she’s shown dual-wielding sewing needles. Laura is another high roller here, with 20 dexterity (though it’s rather balanced by having just 3 strength).
• Robbie Daymond as Kattigan Vale, a human Ranger accompanied by a hulking wolf named Wolfram. Having Wolfram makes Kattigan seem like the classic Beast Master hunter.
• Taliesin Jaffe as Bolaire Lathalia, an elf warlock. The first episode didn’t give clues to Bolaire’s playstyle — other than the fact that it’s pure Taliesin — but the character art gives definite Hexblade vibes.
• Matthew Mercer as Sir Julien Davinos, human fighter/rogue. This combination means Julien won’t have a subclass just yet, and I’m already wondering whether Matt plans to lean fighter or rogue. I suspect he’s done a two-level dip for action surge and will lean more on the rogue side moving forward (Julien certainly has the personality for it). With 18 dexterity, he’s leaning into agility over strength either way.
• Marisha Ray as Murray Mag’nesson, dwarf wizard. We don’t know much about Murray except that she’s brimming with personality. The lenses shown attached to her hat might make her a divination Wizard, which would be an interesting play.
• Ashley Johnson as Vaelus, an elf paladin in the service of a fallen god — and oath of vengeance is right there. I certainly hadn’t expected Ashley’s character to be a paladin, but Vaelus is already owning every room she’s in. I’m looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

While there’s still info to learn (and guesswork to be done), this is what we know so far about all of the characters in Critical Role campaign 4. I’ll update this when we learn more about subclasses!

Originally published September 17, 2025; updated October 8, 2025.